{"id":67175,"date":"2016-02-02T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3ca7c7492e82b01376b336cee828d8bc"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T12:45:29","slug":"news-story-reading-teenager-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-attempted-murder-and-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67175","title":{"rendered":"News story: Reading teenager sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder and rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At Reading Crown Court in October 2015, Stroomer was sentenced to a total of 17 years\u2019 detention, extended for three years. <\/p>\n<p>The Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal and after he personally presented the case at today\u2019s hearing said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI referred the original sentence as I felt that it did not properly reflect the severity of the case.  The offences included the vicious attempted killing of two girls in a violent knife attack, as well as serious rape and sexual assault in circumstances of blackmail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope this increased sentence gives some comfort to the victims and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentence of Callum Stroomer to life in prison with a minimum of 13 years for the vicious attempted murder of two teenage girls while he was on bail for the rape and sexual assault of two other teenage girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}